, 1887-05-10
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

N"N AANhoH
is dead.
Forest fires are raging in the state of
Nuevo Leon, Mex.
Shocks of earthquake continue to be
felt at Tucson, Arix.
The government of Hungary has con-
tracted for 4OO, 900 new rifles.
Billy WEIGH, the well known minstrel,
died in New York on Saturday.
DR.. McGlynn lectured to a large audi
ence in Boston on Sunday night,
Q. L. More has entered upon his duties
as United States consul for Mexico.
Queen Kapiolani and party have ar
rived at Boston and are guests of the
city.
Turkey has called upon Spain to ex-
plain her establishment of a c~oaling sta
ton on the Red sea.
Boulanger has drafted a bill for the
experimental mobilization of the French
army in October next.
Moravian peasants have been attacking
Jews and the use of troops has been ne
cessary to restore order.
The Russians are collecting supplies
within 300 miles OF the Afghan frontier,
preparatory to an advance.
Two Hungarian students fought u duel
at Pesth on Saturday, in which one of the
combatants was shot dead.
Col. Alanson NJ. Randall, LIST artillery,
U. S. A, died at New Almaden, Cal, on
Sunday of Bright's disease.
B, B. Bulwinkle, president of the Ari-
zona Cattle company, died Yesterday at
Flagstaff, Ariz., OF pneumonia.
The strike of the San Francisco brewery
workmen has failed, the places Of the
strikers being filled by n%on-union men.
A terrible windstorm caused the fire at
Navy Karslun, in Hungary, to consume
400 houses and deprive of shelter 5000
people.
The transfer OF the Mexican National
railway to a new company has been ar
ranged, and work will be resumed in a
few weeks
The chief signal officer has arranged to
issue every Monday a bulletin of the
weather throughout the country during
the last week.
About 1000 responses have been re.
ceived to invitations to attend the Nation
al League Of American Wheelmen at st.
Louis on the 10Th inst.
J. B. Slaughter, = wealthy cattlemau Of
Socorro county, y. NJ, who was reported
killed last Friday is not dead but ser
ously hurt. His assailants are still at
large.
A scorchinG sirocco blew all last week
throughout Hungary, rendering vegeta-
ton infammable and causing fires which
destroyed property to the amount of 3d.
500, 900, and devastating the country.
f. Oliver, of Reardsley, ILL.,, jumped
from a passenger train at Iowa Point, on
the Burlington road, and was drowned in
the Missouri river. He was temporarily
insane from being frightened by conf
dence men.
A mulatto named Harry Ward, alias
Diamond Harry" has been arrested in
Chicago for completely in the recent dia-
mond robberies in Albany, Washington
and New York. Several valuable Jewels
were found on his person.
A colored ''baptizing' IN the Missis.
sippi river at New Orleans on Sunday last
led to the drowning of Il number of per-
sons estimated at from seven to fifteen.
The railing surrounding a wharf gave way
and fully fifty of the spectators were
thrown into the river.
The earthquake of last Tuesday in
Sonora, created sad havoc, destroying sew
eral villages. Nine persons we're killed at
Oputo and $50 at Bashipe, where every
house was leveled to the ground. A new
volcano appeared and its eruption has de-
stroyed all the timber and pastures of the
adjoining valleys,
Cabinet Photos 80 per dozen at the
L. p. Photo Car.